Elevation of Sankt Niklaus, Valais, Switzerland

Sankt Niklaus, Valais, Switzerland is 1,142 m (3,747 ft) above sea level.

Sankt Niklaus's height from sea level is 1,142 metres, or 3,747 feet. GeoNames reads 1,115 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: St. Niklaus St.Niklaus.

Ground within 4 km

1,002 m – 3,131 m

Mean 2,041 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 2,129 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 47

among the towns of Valais, and 26th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Saas-Fee

12.2 km to the SE, at 1,848 m, 706 m higher.

Cross-section through Sankt Niklaus

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sankt Niklaus; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,628 m at 12 km west to 2,257 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 643 m at 12 km north to 2,526 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Sankt Niklaus, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 51 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Sankt Niklaus

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Saas-Fee	12.2 km	SE	1,848 m (6,063 ft)	+706 m
Visp	14.7 km	NE	649 m (2,129 ft)	−493 m
Raron	14.9 km	N	713 m (2,339 ft)	−429 m
Leuk	17.6 km	NW	1,236 m (4,055 ft)	+94 m
Zermatt	17.7 km	S	1,650 m (5,413 ft)	+508 m

Peaks and passes near Sankt Niklaus

Dom, peak at 4,545 m (14,911 ft), 10.1 km to the SE — 3,403 m above the town.
Weisshorn, peak at 4,505 m (14,780 ft), 10.6 km to the SW — 3,363 m above the town.
Täschhorn, peak at 4,491 m (14,734 ft), 11.1 km to the SE — 3,349 m above the town.
Sparrulicke, pass at 2,881 m (9,452 ft), 2.6 km to the W.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Sankt Niklaus is

Latitude 46.1757258, longitude 7.801844. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Sankt Niklaus's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 1,115 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.